near Bridgeville in Sussex County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Seaford Hundred

By Mike Stroud, October 17, 2011

1. Seaford Hundred Marker

Inscription.

Seaford Hundred. . Detached from Northwest Fork Hundred by Act of General Assembly, 1869. Northwest Fork Hundred, originally claimed by Maryland, then embraced all territory west of Northwest Fork. Delaware obtained undisputed title in 1775, upon confirmation of Mason and Dixon Line.

Detached from Northwest Fork Hundred
by Act of General Assembly, 1869.
Northwest Fork Hundred, originally
claimed by Maryland, then embraced
all territory west of Northwest Fork.
Delaware obtained undisputed title in
1775, upon confirmation of Mason and
Dixon Line.

Erected 1968 by The Delaware Public Archives. (Marker Number S. 50.)

Location. 38° 42.462′ N, 75° 33.375′ W. Marker is in near Bridgeville, Delaware, in Sussex County. Marker is on Georgetown-Bridgeville Road (Delaware Route 404), on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Located between Sanflippo Road and Oak Road. Marker is in this post office area: Bridgeville DE 19933, United States of America.

is derived from the number one hundred. It may once have referred to an area liable to provide for a hundred men under arms, or containing roughly a hundred homesteads.Counties in Delaware,New Jersey and Pennsylvania were divided into hundreds in the seventeenth century, in imitation of the English system. They survive in Delaware (see List of Delaware Counties and Hundreds), and were used as tax reporting and voting districts until the 1960s, but now serve no administrative role, their only official legal use being in real- estate title descriptions

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on October 31, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 314 times since then. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on November 5, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.

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